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SPACE ADMINISTRATION
Washington, D. C. 20546
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FOR.RELEASE:
July 23, 1973
p PROJECT: Second 3
Manned Mission
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S OBJECTIVES
MISSION ..............................
OF THE SECOND MANNED SKYLAB 11-12
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SKYLAB FLIGHT
EXPERIMENTS PLANNING ..............
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T_ SKYLAB
SKYLAB STATUS:
AND RELATEDWHAT OBJECTS
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orbit to man the Skylab space station. The second crew will
home planet, his Sun and himself which was begun by the Sky-
The Skylab 3 crew will live and work aboard the space
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the crew was trained in erecting the shields. Once the tem-
tasks in space.
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Taking up where the first crew left off, the second Skylab
Sun and its influence upon life on Earth will again Come under
and instruments of the Skylab space station toward our star some
the second manned lunar landing, Apollo 12, and with Apollo 12
Surveyor Ill landing site. Garriott and Lousma have not flown
in space.
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After docking with the space station, the Skylab crew will
open the hatch, enter Skylab and begin to activate the station's
systems. Skylab crew work days begin at 6 a.m. and end at i0 p.m.
by the previous crew, and to the Sun end of the Apollo Tele-
The second and third EVAs will be for ATM retrieval and
replacement.
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SKYLAB MAJOR EVENTS
(Central Daylight Time)
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Orbitalinsertion 7:18:53a.m.
Docking 3:38:50
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RENDEZVOUSSEQUENCE
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DELTAV, RESULTANT
TIME, G.E,T.t ADDED FT. PERIGEE/APOGEE,
HR:MIN:SEC PERSECOND N. M[.
TERMINAL PHASE
TPF FINALIZATION • 07:46:04.0 27.3 230/238
DCK DOCKING 08:30:00
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SEPARATION BURN SHAPING (SPS-I)
UNDOCKING AND
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DARKNESS
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TIME FROM 00:00 SEPTEMBER 22, G.M.T., NR:MIfl
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Skylab crew work days in space are not a whole lot different
from work days on Earth. The normal day starts at 6 a.m. and runs
until i0 p.m. CDT. Days off, however, are fewer and farther
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TYPICAL, CREW DAY
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M131-1'MO92/M171-1
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POSTSLEEP
ACTIVITIES PRE-SLEEP
ACTIVITIES
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The net result was that Skylab was in good orbit, but
had only about half of its power-generating capability in opera-
tion and the spacecraft was overheating. The overheating occurred
because the lost meteoroid shield also provided thermal balance.
It was painted in a way to reflect enough sunlight so that the
laboratory would stay cool.
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On launch day, Pete Conrad, Joe Kerwin and Paul _eitz went
through launch and rendezvous, soft docked, prepared for stand-
UP EVA, undocked, and tackled the salvage problem. Weitz did
the stand-up EVA as Kerwin steadied his legs and Conrad maneuvered
the CSM.
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During the first full EREP pass, the space station left
solar orientation and went to "local vertical" as planned.
This moves the solar arrays out of the sunlight and the batteries
go to discharge. On that first pass, four battery systems which
had gotten hot in the unmanned "pitch-up" attitude showed they
were taking less than one-half charge, and one battery system
dropped off the line completely. The loss was serious even though
there-are 18 such battery packs in the ATM power supply system.
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The ATM passive and active cooling systems also are operating
well.
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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EXPERIMENTS SU_4ARY:
• DATA COLLECTED
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ACHIEV_ PLA_N_
ATM
MANNED VIEWING TIME 81 HRS [Ol HRS. 817.
EXPER]_ENT FILM 17,352 FRAMES 22,810 FRAMES 75%
H-ALPHA-I FILM 13,000 FRAMES [6,000 FRAMES
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PASSES Ii (SSHORT) 14 79_
ETC PASSES 6 i0 607.
PHOTOS 7460 9000 837,
TAPE REELS 6 6
186 TASK SITES COVERED) DATA TAKEN FOR 75 INVEST_C_TIONS
MEDICAL
COROLLARIES
STUDENTS
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The data taken by S055 were sent via telemetry to the ground
to be processed by the experimenter for use by the ground obser-
vers of the eclipse. Experiments S_52 and S054 photographed the
eclipse events. Their film will be retrieved at the end of the
Skylab 3 mission in late Septembe r .
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